Quotes from books

The valkyries

'Anything that occurs once can never occur again. But, should it happen twice, it will surely happen a third time.'

'And each man kills the thing he loves,
By all let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword.'

'Some things are so important that you have to learn about them on your own.'

'Our soul includes nothing but ourselves.'

'There is no love in peace. Whoever seeks peace is lost.'

'One of nature's most important laws: every movement needs to pause at times.'

'Destabilization -
Normally, two people converse at arm's length. When one of them approaches the other too closely, the other's thinking becomes disorganised.'

'Everything is a ritual. A carefully elaborated ritual that the person tries to perform, precisely because he or she is afraid that - everything will go wrong. The name of that ritual is routine.'

'People are always more respectable of those who speak of things no one understands.'

'The truth gives you freedom.'

'Pain always banishes non - sensicle thinking.'